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Thursday, August 29, 2013

ICY News: History: Milestones in HDD Capacity

From 5MB in 1956 to 4TB today

Year

Maker

Model

Capacity

More Than

1956

IBM

350 Ramac

5MB

1MB

1961

Bryant

4240

90MB

50MB

1965

IBM

2302-3

100MB

100MB

1974

IBM

3330-11 Iceberg

200MB

200MB

1975

STC

8800 Super Disk

880MB

500MB

1981

IBM

3380

1.26GB

1GB

2001

Seagate

Barracuda 180

182GB

100GB

2005

Hitachi GST

7K500

500GB

500GB

2006

Seagate

Barracuda 7200.10

750GB

750GB

2007

Hitachi GST

7K1000

1TB

1TB

2008

Seagate

Barracuda 7200.11

1.5TB

1.5TB

2009

WD

Caviar Green WD20EADS

2TB

2TB

2010

Seagate

External GoFlex Desk

3TB

3TB

2012

Hitachi GST

7K4000

4TB

4TB

(Source: Disk/Trend and StorageNewsletter.com)
Now everybody is at 4TB, Tohiba, Seagate, WD as well as its subsidiary
HGST; The first 5TB and 6TB HDDs are expected next year in 3.5" form
factor.
First HDD Form Factor Introduction

Form factor

Year introduced

Company

39-inch

1961

Bryant Computer

24-inch

1956

IBM

14-inch

1963

IBM

10.5-inch

1981

Fujitsu

9.5-inch

1988

Hitachi

8.8-inch

1984

Hitachi

8.0-inch

1979

Shugart Associates

6.5-inch

1993

Hitachi

5.25-inch

1980

Seagate

3.5-inch

1983

Rodime

3.0-inch

1996

JTS

2.5-inch

1988

PrairieTek

1.8-inch

1991

Intégral Peripherals

1.5-inch

1991

Ecol.2

1.3-inch

1992

HP

1.0-inch

1999

IBM

0.85-inch

2004

Toshiba

(Sources: Disk/Trend and StorageNewsletter.com)

Hard drive industries are growing rapidly with more capacity and smaller
form factor. Almost every user have high capacity HDD nowadays that its
not a necessity to purchase multiple small capacity drives since it would be a waste of space for extra drive. To keep safe and secure with high capacity HDDs, getting an enclosure
to protect the drives may be the best solution to prevent loss of any data.